Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-23

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tire, 1t is 80 beautiful An illustration OF ~hs
| the sentiments of true patriotism are owe
| against tho wild rawlings OF political dema
| gogistn and the narrow biKotry OF mere par
| tisanshIp:
Virginia gave IA this Imperial man
Cast In h. III lssivo mould
OF those high staturcd ages old
~ hich into gr1tucor forms our mortal metal IN
She gave US this uubleui' shed gentleman:
hat shall we give her back but love aud praise
As IN tn. dear Old uuestrtnged days
Before the inevitable wrong began
Mother ot states and uudimini.hed men,
Thou gavestus n country, giving him.
And we owe alway bat we owed th,., them:
The boon thou ~ouldst have snatched from us
great mans memory is the only thing
with in lcuc,s Ia ouila It tho pr,,,cut him
And b'Ed US AS when here ho Knit our golden
ring.
All OF hiln that was subject Ia the hour.
Lies in thy soil and makes 1T part of ours
Where unresentiui nature waves
Her pennons DER the shot ploug he'd sol.
fGOcamtng the eet truce ot God
u, 'pon .hs con .p[ psm S1tS'Gh en- ] %
As here the united North
Poured her embrowned manhood forth
In welcome of our savior ada thy son.
Through battle We have better learned thy
The long bresthei v4lor and undauntcd Will.
Which. like his own. the days disaster done,
Could. safe in manhood. suffer aud be ,till.
Both thine aud ours the victory hardly won;
II ever with distem pered voice or pen
We have InisdeeIned thee, here We take It back,
Be TO us eyernoro as thou vast then,
As We forget thou Ii .st not always been.
Virginia. htly named from EngtA nd's manly
queen
OF this whole ode OF Lp~elrs 1t is emf.
nently true IA Mr.. ScudGer says, that " 1t is
his concentration in poetry and the more
lofty prose which gives to literary art its PIE
ciousness ~ symbol ot human endeavor,
fbn Al
ser viceabis means tor keeping alive the
smoulderiug GOALS OF patriotism. "
Equally true IL 1t of the other examples
adduced I" The spirit OF the oratiops OF
Webster aud Benton, the whole history OF
the giant poised in conscious strength be
fore II IL triumphant struggle, one may catch
IN breath In those glowing lines which end
the Building OF the: Ship The deep passion OF
the war tor the Union may De overlooked in
some formal study of battles and campaigns,
but rises pure, strong, aud flaming in the
Immortal Gettysburg speech. "
Again Mr.. Scudder says, " Practical pa.
triotism Is by no means 80 dependent upon
considerations Of expediency and personal
advantage, or even duty, ~ it Is upon the
undyinH sentiment OF patriotism. As we'll
might we say that practical relig ion rested
only in sense OF duty. Its springs are in
ked through the failure to hold conscious
communion with him, and practical religion
will be but a barren fig tree. Precisely thus,
the sentiment OF patriot must to kept
fresh and living In the hearts Of the young
through quick aud immediate contact " ith
the sources Of that sentiment; and the most
helpful means are those spiritual deposits OF
patriotism which we find in noble poetry and
lofty prose, 8s communicated by men who
have lived patriotic lives AMI been fed with
Goals from the altar. "
" IL all this bs true, We are bound to make
~ deliberate a provision for keeping this
sentiment Of patriotism alive ~ we are to
provide against the possibility OF an attack
upon the nation from foreign enemies" All
this IL true ~ can he. And ~ true and cor.
tain It il that real patriotism is not strength.
ened IN the least, but rather weakened 10y
misdirection, by such primitive and semi.
barbarOus means ~ We now employ in
celebrating our national festival days II
IL not love of country that We foster by
all the noise and fuss Of brass bands and gun.
powder y ith which We "celebTate," but ODl y
= love OF excitement, turmoil and confusion
and the worst OF 1t IL that the multitude aTe
led to think that this IN patriotism. Just a.
little Is It a display OF patriotism every ourth
OF July to burn up ~ much property, and
XIII and maiu ~ many fellow creatures
throughout the country, IA an ordinary battle
in war time would cost us. All the fire
crackers in tho world will not do ~ much
toward making your boy or girl a tue patrio,
az will the reading ot Irvlns's Li's OF Wash
IngtOn; or EBersoDs Fortunes Oi the kepub-
lie, American Scholar, or any one If q score
Of his essays or RIyanps, I.oDgiellOw' H.
Wbittier'-, l.owtifs poorly. san further II
IL not only war histories that generate patriot
lsu, they rather generate u love OF strife and
fighting and adventure One or two volume,
OF Hawthorne, or COoper's tales, or Thoreau
to ray nothing of the Invaluable series O
Amei lean Statesmen and American Men O
Letters biographies, and tho American Com
mOnwealths ScI ies,-theso specimens O
American literature are worth more ~ pre-.
servers, sulightsusTs aud strengthensrs OI
American patriotism, than nll tho pow
Iarades and brass bands la the country.
l shall quote one more paragraph from MIR
Scudder's admirable article, and then will
stop. 1t IL 80 full OF Just that kind of trutt
which We most used, aud which our public
educators need most carefully and earnsstly y
u heed, that hope IL Ill be carefully read
aud thought over In spite OF the heat
"We have gone quito far enough In the
mechanical development of the common
school system. What we most need Ii the
breath OF life, and reading offers the nObles
means for receiving and imparting this breatt
of life. The tendency Ot our schools IL al way,
| toward an assimilation OF tho common lifo O
the country, and there Is no danger that they
will not he practical enough. Arithmetic
passes into the making out OF bills and thu
| caicuistion OF interest Writing grsvitates
Toward business fOrMs. Geography point,
W commercial enter rpriseH. Reading finds III
ohu IN SUNDAY newspaper. hut the com
mon iMe OF the country has Also Its heroic, its
ioSai temper, aud It In the business of thos,
VINO nave 70 DO with schools to see to it tina
thts side u not neglected. This REQUIRE,
thought, adaptation OF means to ends, oreani
zadon. To secure . just equilibrium, ",
need 70 use the great power Of reading, ant
apply II 70 what In noble and inspifitins
The spiritual element In education in oa
common schools will be found TO lie In rs